From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba : an Environmental History since 1492
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From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba : an Environmental History since 1492
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- From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba : an Environmental History since 1492
- Title remainder
- an Environmental History since 1492
- Subject
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- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business
- Cuba
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Electronic books -- History
- Forest management
- Forest management -- Cuba -- History
- History
- History
- NATURE -- Natural Resources
- Sugarcane
- Sugarcane -- Cuba -- History
- Sugarcane industry
- Sugarcane industry -- Cuba -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of Spanish settlement, sugar plantations arose primarily in areas where forests had been cleared by the royal navy, which maintained an interest in management and conservation for the shipbuilding industry. The sugar planters won a decisive victory in 1815, however, when they were allowed to clear extensive forests, without restriction
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- Dewey number
- 333.75137097291
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- no index present
- LC call number
- SB229.C9
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Envisioning Cuba
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